GRAND RAPIDS – The Grand Rapids Griffins are one win away from their first American Hockey League championship after defeating the Syracuse Crunch 4-2 Wednesday night at Van Andel Arena.

Grand Rapids leads the best-of-7 series 3-0, and a victory in Game 4 Friday night would give the Griffins the series sweep and their first American Hockey League championship in the franchise’s 18-year history. Friday’s game is already sold out.

Jan Mursak’s goal with 4:49 to go in the third period broke the 2-2 tie. It was Mursak’s 10th goal of the playoffs. Jeff Hoogan scored the game’s final goal with 2:28 remaining to ice it.

Syracuse took a 1-0 first period lead, but the Griffins answered with a pair of goals in the first five minutes of the second period courtesy of Tomas Tatar and East Grand Rapids’ Luke Glendening, respectively. The lead was short-lived, however, because Syracuse’s Dan Sexton tied the game 2-2 at the 9:56 mark of the second.

Wednesday’s game drew 10,102 spectators, the largest crowd in Griffins’ AHL playoff history.

Please return to MLive.com later Wednesday evening to check out a full report on Grand Rapids’ latest victory.